How To Use Offensiveness In A Sentence

  • But keepers of the Coldplay and Travis flames will warm to its inoffensiveness, its unobtrusiveness and its lack of challenge.
  • In a misguided attempt to be funny, he manages only offensiveness.
  • Because of the grace and inoffensiveness which marked his delineative work, his writings possess an enduring quality, and they will long be read with increasing interest, pleasure and profit. Twain, Mark: Selected Obituaries
  • _Cimicifuga_, meaning to drive away bugs, and the old folk-name of bugbane testify to a degree of offensiveness to other insects, where the flies 'enjoyment begins. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
  • So, to all readers, as well as those I've written about - let me apologize for the displays of pride, pettiness, slander, belligerency, cruelty, and offensiveness - be they intentional or not.
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  • Whatever offensiveness the film once possessed has been diluted by the passage of time; now it simply feels stylish and bittersweet, if esoterically so.
  • The racial offensiveness and insensitivity of his remarks and actions must be acknowledged, criticized, and vigorously resisted.
  • Nobody Really: What are your objective standards in offensiveness in any context? The Volokh Conspiracy » “IM GAY” License Plate “Offensive to the General Public,” Oklahoma Government Agency Concludes
  • He is an extraordinary amalgam of intelligence and foolishness, wisdom and innocence, grace and gaucherie, charm and histrionic offensiveness.
  • They shouldn't consider the author's past offensiveness, or the reprehensibleness of the ideas he expresses outside the paper.
  • It was the speech of a politician par excellence - that is, a craven, bootlicking ode to Unoffensiveness. UVa Apologizes to WVU for Pep Band at cvillenews.com
  • Whether intentional or not, the racial offensiveness and insensitivity of Summers' remarks and actions must be acknowledged, criticized, and vigorously resisted.
  • My weeny merguez, resting flaccidly on couscous, franked the inoffensiveness form, while another, fatter nine quid banger, "the Beaujolaise" – an amalgam of pork, mushroom, onion and bacon – seemed less a sausage than a loose coalition struggling to coexist amicably under the one skin. Restaurant: Bar Boulud, London SW1
  • Even beyond those ironies, there is an offensiveness - and an inhumaneness -- to the court's ruling. Archive 2006-04-01
  • What are your objective standards in offensiveness in any context? The Volokh Conspiracy » “IM GAY” License Plate “Offensive to the General Public,” Oklahoma Government Agency Concludes
  • As a result, starry-eyed inoffensiveness bubbles up and wins the awards, which reward maximum agreeability. Times, Sunday Times
  • Seeing then to the offensiveness of man's nature one to another, there is added a right of every man to every thing, whereby one man invadeth with right, and another with right resisteth; and men live thereby in perpetual diffidence, and study how to preoccupate each other; the estate of men in this natural liberty is the estate of war. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
  • The danger being that while the audience accepts when is on stage, his offensiveness is a parody of other people's prejudices made more piquant by our worry that, at some level, we battle with equally unattractive knee-jerk reactions, that comic tension doesn't always come across in interviews. Ginny Dougary: Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever
  • Even the perspective of courtesy/discourtesy is still contextual to the degree that offensiveness must be calibrated in order establish that which is a courteous or discourteous disagreement. The Volokh Conspiracy » Support for Restricting the Speech of Students Who Wear American Flags to School on Cinco de Mayo
  • My plan was simple: create a conflict between those who would be offended by the piece and those who would say its offensiveness gave it merit as powerful, thought-provoking art.
  • Attacking Mitt on the merits of the sign fiasco carries with it the serious risk that the media will ignore the "offensiveness" of Mitt's actions and focus insteadon how Obama's name really is similar to Osama's, and what this portends for the future of Obama's campaign. Election Central Morning Roundup
  • But for sheer blimpish offensiveness nothing compares with his remarks about a father who forgave the killers of his daughter who was murdered during the Enniskillen Cenotaph bombing.
  • You're right, how come that level of offensiveness is tolerated? Ephebiphobia
  • The next day, one of these emailers responded that he thought my reply was disproportionate to the offensiveness of his email; I agreed and apologized for having reacted inappropriately.
  • Another declared: This waiting and watching, our Fabian offensiveness, is a whole lot easier at Washington than at With Funston's Men
  • She overlooked his offensiveness and tried to pretend nothing had happened.
  • But when O'Rourke is not blinding you with his offensiveness, he's dishing out tremendous observations on human nature.
  • What makes her work worthy of coverage when work of equivalent shoddiness and offensiveness is regarded as absolutely off-limits? The Volokh Conspiracy » BROADCASTING REVISIONISM:
  • The danger being that while the audience accepts when is on stage, his offensiveness is a parody of other people's prejudices (made more piquant by our worry that, at some level, we battle with equally unattractive knee-jerk reactions), that comic tension doesn't always come across in interviews. Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever
  • Never mind that nothing tops pacc's routine characterization of Obama supporters as "fluffers" for offensiveness. Poll: Hillary With Wide National Lead For Dems, Beats Rudy In General
  • Sorry if I had to disqualify your entry for lack of taste or offensiveness in general.
  • They come up to gallery requirements by their "pleasantness" or the inoffensiveness of their style. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets

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